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Recently, the Indian IT and Communications Ministry released a report on the cyber threat faced by India. As per this report submitted by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, in the last three years of 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 (till June) about 117 Indian government websites have been hacked by the various hacker groups.... »

The cyber cafes being the prominent industry providing Internet connectivity to 37 percent of country’s Internet users is now under scrutiny by the central government. The central government has made it mandatory for the cyber cafe industry to follow few security measures which are included in the IT (Guidelines for Cyber Cafe) Rules, 2011.... »

20 Jul 11: Global consultancy firm, KPMG has conducted a survey which revealed that 88% of the frauds taking place in Indian companies are never reported. Of the reported cases, enforcement action is taken in quarter of the cases, disciplinary action was taken in another quarter of cases and resignation/voluntary retirement was occurred in... »

19 Jul 11: A survey was conducted by McAfee-Synovate to know how safe are Indian children online. This survey was only limited to affluent and upper middle class households of 10 cities – Cochin, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Pune, Mumbai and New Delhi. The survey was conducted on 500 children (between the age... »

13 March 2011: A resident of the city and a former employee of a Singapore MNC is involved in a cybercrime, in which he had hacked the server of a city based BPO INVOICE Network Private Limited, situated at Kamalapuri. The company offers VOIP services for a Singapore based company, Networks PTE Ltd. The... »

A new Cyber Crime police station was inaugurated in Hyderabad to address the Cyber crime cases. There was no separate Cyber Crime cell previously. These cases will be handled by Information Technology experts. There are two Inspectors, five Sub-Inspectors, four head constables, 24 constables and four home guards in this new police station. So,... »